Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Best Quotes about Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

10.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

18.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

24.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

31.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

33.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

45.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.